VII, Account of an Earthquake. By John Lloyd, Efq. In a 
Letter to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart . P. R. S. 
Read January 23, 1783, 
TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. P. R. S, 
Wickwer near St. Afaph, 
DEAR SIR, Nov. 16, 1782. 
U PON Saturday the 5 th of Oflober lad:, between eight 
and nine o’clock in the evening, a fhock of an earth- 
quake was felt in feveral parts of this principality, by many 
perfons, though not generally. At Mold, in the county of Flint, 
it was didindtly perceived by a gentleman, at that time in a houfe 
quite out of the town, and feemed attended with a rumbling 
noife, like a carriage going over a pavement, fo that if his fitua- 
tion had not rendered that fenfation impoffible, he fhould have 
alcribed it to that ; and at the fame time fome China cups 
and faucers rattled very much, that were upon a table in the 
room with him. 
At the palace, at Bangor, it was perceived by all the bifhop’s 
family at about thirty-nine minutes pad eight o’clock, with the 
fame kind of rumbling, and a double vibration. Many other 
perfons in that neighbourhood were fen fible of it. 
In many places in the ifle of Anglefey it was drongly felt ; 
at Bodorgan, the feat of owen p. meyrick, efq. it was 
thought by the family that a carriage had driven up to the 
door. In anfwer to fome enquiries made, 1 received the fol- 
lowing 
